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Representation : elections and beyond /
Featuring twelve essays that engage with national, provincial, and municipal governments across three continents, Representation examines the core elements and challenges of fair, effective political institutions, providing an invaluable roadmap to better democratic representation in the twenty-firs...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
©2013.
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| Colección: | Democracy, citizenship, and constitutionalism.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Evaluating U.S. electoral institutions in comparative perspective / André Blais
- Are American elections sufficiently democratic? / Dennis F. Thompson
- Barriers to voting in the twenty-first century / Alexander Keyssar
- Uneven democracy: turnout, minority interests, and local government spending / Zoltan Hajnal and Jessica Trounstine
- Fairness and bias in electoral systems / Anthony McGann
- Political party organizations, civic representation, and participation / Georgia Kernell
- The paradox of voting
- for Republicans: economic inequality, political organization, and the American voter / Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson
- A democratic balance: bureaucracy, political parties, and political representation / Pradeep Chhibber and Susan L. Ostermann
- The closing of the frontier: political blogs, the 2008 election, and the online public sphere / Matthew Hindman
- The technological basis of organizational membership: representation of interests in the new media age / Dave Karpf
- The principle of affected interests: an interpretation and defense / Archon Fung
- Citizen representatives / Mark E. Warren.